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spots of the forewing are obsolete, and the underside is conspicnonsly flashed 

 with purple red. 



Figs. 12 to 17 of PI. VIII. represent various penis forms : f. 14, Warringo R.= 

 cJ-f. picta; f 15, Kiorbezi= c?-f. picta ; f. 13, Nambooma= c?-f. chanleri \ f. 12, 

 Bandawe=(?-f. cytila ; f. 16, Wakibara=tJ-f. catockrous ; f. 17, Warri, Niger = 

 c?-f catockrous. 



¥ . Polychromatic. 

 A. Forewing above with a discal and a postdiscal series of paler spots, or the 

 spots nearly all absent, base not pale bine, no white curved band. 

 a. Hindwing with a broad discal band across disc, white, buff, blue. 



a^. Discal and postdiscal patches of forewing merged together, only the 

 upper two or three pairs separated, the band thus formed creamy 

 buff, anteriorly and distally ochraceous ; hindwing with admarginal 

 spots SC^ — W orange, the following ones olive buff, discal band 

 white, slightly bluish proximally, and with a faint tint of ochraceous 

 at distal edge. Underside, discal interspaces white. 



1. ^-i.kirki. 



(?) Charaxea viola Butler, Ann. Mag. N. E. (4). XVni. p. 481 (1876) (Atbara ; haec forma? aut 



Ch. etheocles viola 1). 

 Ch. kirtci Butler, I.e. (Mamboia). 

 Ch. chanleri Holland, I.e. p. 753. ? (Brit. E. Afr. ; Kiknyu ?). 



Resembling the Senegalese Ck. etheocles viola. It is known from British 

 E. Africa (Kiknyu or Kenia district?), Taveta, May 1891 (Mus. Tring), German 

 E. Africa, Mamboia; possibly the Abyssinian individuals recorded by Butler, I.e., 

 as viola belong here also. 



i'. Discal and postdiscal patches of forewing more or less joined together, 

 or nearly all separated, ochraceous ; band of hindwing huffish 

 ochraceous or buff, admarginal spots all orange, except anal one. 

 Underside flushed with reddish purple, discal and postdiscal inter- 

 spaces of forewing with buff patches, discal interspaces of hindwing 

 forming a buff coloured band. 



2. ? -f. ockracea Rothsch., f. nov. 



Ch. ephyra, Staudinger, Irh IX. t. 3. f. 6 (1896) (Gaboon). 



Occurs in West Africa : Congo (Mus. Tring). 



c^. Discal and postdiscal patches of forewing above as before, upper ones 

 huffish, posterior ones white, slightly bluish ; band of hindwing 

 white, and shaded with blue at edges. Resembling ? of Ch. ameliae. 



3. ?-f etheocles. 



P. E. A. etheocles Cramer, I.e. 



Ch. ephyra, Staudinger, Iris IX. t. 3. f. 3. 4 (1896). 



A West African form, the commonest in S. Leone ; known from S. Leone, 

 Gold Coast, Cameroons, Gaboon. 



(P. Like 4' or c^ but the last discal patch of the forewing and the band of 

 the hindwing blue. Resembles Ch. imperials ? . 



4. ?-f. re^a^/s Rothsch., nov. 



